June 2023

Walks 10 and 11 head past this magnificent castle in Shropshire's food capital. Photo: © Simon Whaley

1. Cornwall Boscastle
2. Devon Bantham & Hope Cove
3. Dorset Langton Herring
4. Wiltshire Holt & Great Chalfield
5. Gloucestershire Adlestrop & Daylesford
6. Hampshire Hambledon
7. Kent Fordwich to Upstreet
8. Buckinghamshire West Wycombe & Bledlow Ridge
9. Bedfordshire Pavenham to Bedford
10. Shropshire Craven Arms to Ludlow
11. Shropshire/Herefordshire Ludlow & Mortimer Forest
12. Rutland Braunston-in-Rutland
13. Derbyshire Edale & Mam Tor
14. Suffolk Freston
15. Norfolk Rockland St Mary & Claxton
16. Cumbria Elterwater & Little Langdale
17. Cumbria Kirkby Lonsdale
18. West Yorkshire Rothwell
19. East Yorkshire Huggate
20. Northumberland Beadnell to Craster
21. Pembrokeshire Angle Peninsula
22. Gwynedd Barmouth
23. Wrexham/Shropshire Chirk & Pontfadog
24. East Lothian East Linton to Dunbar
25. Outer Hebrides Eriskay
26. Highland Druim Shionnaich
27. Cumbria Helm Crag & Far Easedale

May 2023

Walk 20 takes you to an ancient hilltop castle.

Photo: Matthew Pike

1. Cornwall Gurnard's Head to Cape Cornwall
2. Devon Haytor Rocks & Hound Tor
3. Dorset Lulworth Cove & Durdle Door
4. Isle of Wight Tennyson Down & the Needles
5. East Sussex Seven Sisters & Beachy Head
6. Kent Dungeness
7. Greater London Westminster to Parliament Hill
8. Worcestershire/Gloucestershire Snowshill & Broadway
9. Derbyshire Chrome & Parkhouse Hill
10. Norfolk Berney Arms to Reedham
11. Norfolk Burnham Deepdale to Wells
12. Cumbria Langdale Pikes
13. North Yorkshire Ingleborough
14. North Yorkshire Brimham Rocks
15. East Yorkshire Flamborough Head
16. Northumberland Windy Gyle
17. Northumberland Holy Island
18. Pembrokeshire St Davids & Ramsey Sound
19. Powys/Carmarthenshire Black Mountain
20. Denbighshire Llangollen
21. North Ayrshire Goatfell
22. Stirling Dumgoyne
23. Outer Hebrides Isle of Vatersay
24. Highland Loch Affric Circuit
25. Aberdeenshire Lochnagar
26. Aberdeenshire Cruden Bay & Slains Castle
27. Outer Hebrides An Cliseam
28. Highland Stac Pollaidh

April 2023

Walk 6 trails the North Downs Way through the poppy-stippled fields of Plantlife’s Ranscombe Farm Reserve.
Photo: Philip Thomas

1. Cornwall Polgigga & Porthgwarra
2. Dorset Dorchester to Weymouth
3. Somerset Beckington to Frome
4. Isle of Wight Godshill & Appuldurcombe
5. West Sussex Bramber
6. Kent Cobham & Luddesdown
7. Essex Epping to Loughton
8. Oxfordshire Charlbury to Hanborough
9. Herefordshire Mordiford & Hampton Bishop
10. Warwickshire Stratford-upon-Avon to Wootton Wawen
11. Leicestershire Burbage Common & Wood
12. Staffordshire/Shropshire Forton & Aqualate Mere
13. Cambridgeshire Lode Mill & Quy Fen
14. Norfolk Honing & East Ruston
15. Cheshire Kerridge Hill & White Nancy
16. Merseyside Formby
17. Cumbria Raven Crag
18. Cumbria Caldbeck & Watersmeet
19. West Yorkshire St Ives Country Estate
20. North Yorkshire Semer Water
21. Northumberland Bewick Moor
22. Swansea Parc le Breos Wood
23. Conwy Llandudno
24. West Lothian Almondell & Calderwood Country Park
25. Highland Cùl Mòr
26. Highland Ullapool Hill Walk
27. Powys Pen y Fan & Corn Du

Spring 2023

Our Spring issue covers nine wonderfully different routes up the highest mountain in Wales (17 – 25), including this one (25), the white-knuckle way; behold Crib Goch (a Grade 1 scramble).
Photo: Tom Bailey

1. Devon Cranmere Pool
2. Dorset Sixpenny Handley
3. Berkshire Cookham
4. Kent Chilham & Godmersham
5. Kent Wye Downs & Crundale
6. Worcestershire Upton upon Severn
7. Northamptonshire Woodford Halse & Eydon
8. Staffordshire Warslow, Revidge & Lum Edge
9. Cambridgeshire Ely
10. Lancashire Hurst Green & the Three Rivers
11. Cumbria Brockhole & Troutbeck
12. Cumbria Fairfield via Seat Sandal
13. North Yorkshire Grassington & Hebden
14. East Yorkshire Bridlington & Flamborough
15. North Yorkshire Goathland & Grosmont
16. Glamorgan Dinas Powys & Salmon Leaps
17. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Llanberis Path
18. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Miners' Track
19. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Ranger Path
20. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Pyg Track
21. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Rhyd-Ddu Path
22. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Watkin Path

    UPDATE: Incorrect map printed in the magazine. Use the map and route plot provided on OS Maps.

23. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: South Ridge
24. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Y Lliwedd
25. Gwynedd Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: Crib Goch
26. Falkirk Blackness Castle & Bay
27. Perth & Kinross Kinclaven & Ballathie
28. Highland Fuar Tholl

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March 2023

Walk 16 yields this breathtaking view of the North Pennines escarpment from Crosby Ravensworth Fell.
Photo: Vivienne Crow

1. Cornwall Trebetherick & Rock
2. Dorset Cerne Abbas & Minterne Magna
3. Gloucestershire Ashleworth to Gloucester
4. East Sussex Telscombe
5. Hampshire Longparish
6. Berkshire Streatley & Aldworth
7. Essex Blackmore
8. Oxfordshire/Warwickshire Banbury
9. Shropshire Bucknell
10. Staffordshire Kinver and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal
11. Nottinghamshire Willoughby-on-the-Wolds
12. Suffolk Great Finborough
13. Cambridgeshire Castor Hanglands
14. Greater Manchester Naden & Greenbooth Reservoirs
15. Cumbria Blawith & Beacon Fell
16. Cumbria Crosby Ravensworth Fell
17. South Yorkshire Thurlstone Moors
18. North Yorkshire Sheriff Hutton
19. North Yorkshire Saltburn
20. County Durham Pontop Pike
21. Pembrokeshire Saundersfoot
22. Powys Llyswen & Mynydd Fforest
23. Denbighshire Llandrillo & Cadair Berwyn
24. Scottish Borders Rubers Law
25. Scottish Borders Vertish Hill & Williestruther Loch
26. Highland Balmacara
27. Derbyshire Long Dale & Gratton Dale